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I have made no mystery of my distaste for Handango. I won’t reiterate my feelings here but suffice it to say, they represent all that is wrong with the mobile software world. In my post a couple of months ago (linked above) I stated that I would be pulling my themes off of Handango for numerous reasons culminating with a recent hike in Handango’s revenue take. As I mentioned, the money isn’t what did me in. It was the sneaky means through which Handango’s new sharing model was introduced and the ridiculous scale that it chose to implement.

Yesterday morning I happened to log into an old email account that I hadn’t checked for a while and it just so happens that this is the address tied to my Handango Partner account. To my surprise, it contained a bounty of new sales notifications. Oh no! I completely forgot to close my account.

So now I’m waiting to hear back from Handango Partner customer care with regards to the termination of my account. Why am I telling you all this? Once my account is closed, I plan to distribute all of my commercial themes here on the maramine blog, for free. I’ll likely do so one or two at a time, probably once per week. I was never into selling themes as a source of income. It’s true that I did make a fair amount of cash doing so, but the real reason was simply to cover any costs associated with SiMo. As AdSense seems to be covering me in that department now, I no longer have a need to sell themes. Hopefully I’ll have my frist free themes up here sometime next week.

I hope Handango will act quickly for me; actually all of my experiences with customer care in the past have been good. They have been very helpful each month in fact, as I had to point out that Handango’s accounting department was consistently stealing money from me. Yes, I use the term “stealing” because when royalties come through low each and every month it can hardly be considered a mistake. Since my sales were low comparatively - I believe my best month was probably only around $1,000 in sales - the errors were typically in the $10-$20 range. I actually gave up on them after a while; let them have their pennies. I hope the big guys are watching their checks though…